What makes a KS a KS?

[Dark Cat]

2 separate occasions that both happened recently made me wonder about the....uh..."dynamics" of Kill Stealing, in respect to what is considered ok and what is not...

Time 1 was during the WoF when I shot a Kerb, and it then ran off after someone else (I believe it was Clam Jamfire) forcing me to run after it with my low-ranged pistol. Clam was in combat with at least 2 others before this one reached him, but made some comment about me Kill Stealing his mob at the time. After the match and I explained what happened he was fine with it and we were cool.

Time 2 tho almost the same thing happened and the other guy was not ok with it.... was out on a promotion test with a soc member (requires to kill an Atrox Guardian Solo.) and the hopeful takes a shot at an Atrox, but the Troxie runs for some random person. It doesn't even reach the random person but he fires upon it, then the Troxie turns around and comes back towards my soc member.
At this point the random guy chases after the Trox - and me thinking he was going to try and KS it I jumped in as well and we got the loot.

So then both of us were accusing the other side of KSing/attempted KSing.

The question is, at what point do you think a mob belongs to the player shooting it? When against Argonauts for example if I shoot one and it runs towards another player I tend to just leave it and go for another one instead. I never thought that I might be accused of stealing it if I chased after it.

[Artrat]

Generally I feel if someone else has already damaged the mob at all, then the kill should be thiers, to the point where I will even stand there for a couple of minutes with the mob chewing on my armour waiting for them to come and finish it off. Generally I find that the mob will take a couple of bites and run back to the person who tagged it.

I don't expect others to do the same, unless they can obviously see that I am chasing the mob. That, I would consider a KS.

[lillenecho]

In my opinion if you shoot first shot on the mob, then it is yours if you follow it and finishes it. Just remember that any other ava might not have seen that you shot at it and they might feel it is their mob or they might have hit it once before you and you believe it is your mob. There is alot of players who tags mobs with low ammo burn weapons so you wont notice any dmg unless you drag the mobs health bar.
Personally I´m not ever bothered to run after any mob if it runs towards some other ava... i just go for the next one.

[HopSing]

Once can be a accident..
twice or more.. guy is ks'ing

[Kimmi]

Originally Posted by HopSing

Once can be a accident..
twice or more.. guy is ks'ing

agree, one can be accident... but two and more is ksing..

[Konvicted]

When you start a fight with 1 mob or more mobs they should be yours as long as you can keep them near the 50% health mark you should have problem with KS..
There has been situation when i shooted a mob which somehow decided to run to another hunter, then i switch to a more powerfull weapon to make sure i'd deal as much dmg as i can to make it run back to me unless the hunter wasn't busy and shooted the mob too, there is no point fighting for a mob while there are 100's in your hunting area!

[Rayne Jade]

If you a shoot a mob but it runs for someone else, it becomes there's.

This was my choice. The only time I would not honor that is if I shoot an Atrox Alpha and it runs at someone that is seriously engaged already. I would try to determine if that person would be OK if I let that Alpha go... if not I would try to drag the Alpha back. I would not want someone to go to revival because of something I did. Otherwise, I will not actively chase after a mob. On the same note, if I am fighting Argos and several new ones jump me, I will shoot each of them a few times and return to the main one for the kill. This prevents mobs that aggroed me from running away.

[slither]

imo non of the points in your poll would be classed as KSing whichever side of the fight you're on. These things happen in combat when there's multiple avatars in an area, u just deal with them in the best way at the time.

KSing is when someone actively tries to take a mob from you to gain the benefit of you shooting it.

[Silver Viking]

If I tag a mob and it runs to someone else, I might take it back, if the persons it runs to already have a lot of mobs on them or if I can get in more shots before it reach the other ava.
If I am attacked by a mob tagged by someone else, I finish the mobs already on me and if it s still there I kill it. If the other ava is chasing it, I will not shoot at it.
This is the rules I normally folow, wont say its always like this, but tries to stick to it

Sorry for my broken English


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[eefi]

Yesterday when hunting feffs outside phoenix there were me and some other hunter. When I hunt and the mob starts running towards some other hunter (happened two times yesterday) I wait and see if the hunter can handle the mob, and if he/she can I will go on with my hunting trip.

But if the mob is to much, I'll go and shoot the mob myself.

If a mob by another ava comes at me I'll finish of my mobs first then take on the other mobs.